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( ) LibreKrsnah ( )
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(.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.)
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𝓲𝓼𝓿𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓱𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓱𝓴𝓻𝓼𝓷𝓪𝓱
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Day 4
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The militants were chasing me across the desert. My sandals
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weren't helping. I could hear the burst fire as the sand flew up
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all around me.
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I stumbled and fell down a sand dune.
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"Krsnah! Krsnah!" I could hear someone calling my name.
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"KRSNAH!"
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I gasped awake to a frightened Kriti shaking me. "Krsnah! Krs-"
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"Alright! Alright! I'm awake! Jesus Christ!" I sat up and rubbed
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the sleep off my eyes.
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"Did you have the bad dream?" She asked, holding me by the arms.
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"What? No! Well yeah, sort of... until you woke me up... What's
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going on?" I mumbled.
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"It worked! It worked!" She cried delightfully, and pulled me in
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for a tight hug. "I was so worried about you! Oh my baby!"
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"Uhhh, yeah, you're gonna crush me if you squeeze any harder," I
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said.
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She loosened her grip and laughed, "Is that better?" "Mmmmm, much
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better!" I embraced her.
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She held me forever, until I broke the silence. "Kriti, we need
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to talk," I said softly.
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"Yes we do!"
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"No," I looked into her eyes, "I mean, all of us, we need to talk."
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"I know," she smiled, running her fingers through my hair.
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"Hey everyone! Before we start, I just wanna apologize for my
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behavior yesterday. I shouldn't have said all those things, and I'm
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really sorry," I began.
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"Apology accepted," Adah said.
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"Well, thanks! Look, I don't really know much about you ladies and
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I sorta freaked out yesterday. I'm a little paranoid when it comes
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to getting close to other people, particularly, strangers. I just...
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I need to know everything about you. So, why don't you start by
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telling me about yourselves?"
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"You first!" Adah shot back.
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The others looked at her, and then Aditi spoke up, "We're the 10th
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Generation of clones. Well, Monica and Kriti are 11th Gen clones,
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but the rest of us are 10th Gen."
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"What about the ones hibernating?" I asked.
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"10th Gen."
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"Oh!" I didn't know what to say.
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"When you came to the palace, we noticed you were a human, but you
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acted very different!" Aditi observed.
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"Different?"
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"Yes, different. You didn't act like the normal human species," she
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said. "Where did you come from?"
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"Well, earth, originally, but I was gone for a long time," I replied.
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"Do you have a family?" Selena asked.
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"No."
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"What happened to your family?"
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"I don't know. I can't remember that far back."
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"How old are you?" Trisha asked.
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"29."
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"No, no, that's how old you look. She's asking you how old you are,"
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Aditi clarified.
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I shook my head, "I don't know. I lost track of time."
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"How old do you think you are?" Monica asked.
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"Ehh...I don't know. Maybe a couple of hundred years? Or a thousand?"
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She nodded.
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"How do you look so young? You don't seem to have aged at all," Trisha
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asked.
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"Well, it's a long story. But the short story is, someone gave me a
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potion that stopped me from aging."
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"But you weren't genetically modified?" Aditi asked.
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"No."
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"Interesting. Well, that makes sense." she said, thoughtfully.
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"Y'know I was thinking last night, that I shouldn't be keeping ya'll
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here. I came to liberate you and now I want you to be free," I looked
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around at them. "You ladies can choose whatever planet you'd like
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to live in and I'll drop you off there. If you need a spaceship, I
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can hijack one for you. Y'know, be free, go out there and live your
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lives, do whatever you want. Get married, have kids. You do get
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married right?"
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"No," Trisha replied.
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"No marriage? So what, you just have random sex with everyone?"
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"We weren't designed for marriage," Trisha replied.
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"And we don't just have sex with everyone," Kriti said.
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"Okay, then do whatever you want. What are your plans now?" I asked.
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"To protect you," Adah said.
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"To protect me?! I don't need no protection! I'm a grown ass man!
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I can take care of myself!" I retorted.
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"Really? Can you?" she challenged me.
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"How else do you think I survived for this long?" I stared at her.
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"Pure luck!" she quipped.
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"Pure luck?! You think I'm some kinda pussy? I'm a fighter! You wanna
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fight me? You're lucky you're a wom-"
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"YOU'RE A BABY!" Adah hissed.
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"A BABY?! DID YOU JUST CALL ME A BABY?" I was fuming at that point.
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But my anger was shortlived.
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"Stop it!" Kriti ordered. She looked angry enough.
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"I'm not a fuckin' baby," I grumbled.
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"Yes you are!" She glared at me.
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"No I'm not," I grumbled on.
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"Krsnah, you're an endangered species. You can't survive without
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us," Aditi interjected.
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I laughed. "Oh! Now I'm an endangered species!" I shooked my head.
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"Do you know why you're sitting here?"
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"No, please enlighten me! I just saved your ass and now I'm the
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endangered species!"
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"Krsnah, you didn't save anyone," Aditi stated.
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"That's a remarkable way of saying thank you," I shooked my head.
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"Adah killed the king," Aditi began.
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"Wait, what?! Hold on! I killed the king! I put two in his head,"
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I exclaimed.
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"You killed a first generation clone. We'd weakened him for you to
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take your shot," Aditi replied.
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"What about-"
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"I killed the king," Adah interrupted.
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"You?!" I said in disbelief.
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"Yes. I was his bodyguard. With my team on watch, you wouldn't have
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gotten anywhere near the king or the royal family," she replied.
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"So whom did I kill?"
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"A clone."
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"Why?" I looked around, "Why didn't you just tell me or stop me or
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say something?!"
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"We wanted to see what you'd do. We were studying you. You're an
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endangered species. The humans left on earth don't have the freedom
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to act freely," Aditi replied.
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"No freedom?"
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"None. We keep them in museums and special facilities to ensure
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their survival. There's about 500,000 humans left on earth," Aditi
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said.
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"What happened to the others?" I asked
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"They were either killed or escaped to other planets and galaxies."
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"Wow! So everyone else is-"
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"A clone."
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"Wow!" I was shocked. "So, what happens next?"
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"Now we protect you. Wherever you go, we go," Aditi said.
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"Well I assure you, I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself."
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"Not for very long. You don't stand a chance against the intergalaxial
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troops," she replied.
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"What?"
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"We're now sending spaceships to conquer other planets and galaxies.
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If they find you, they'll probably kill you or put you in a cage and
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ship you back to earth," Aditi replied.
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"Wow! So much for freedom!"
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"Yes. That's why we've helped several humans escape," Aditi said. "And
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we risked everything to save you."
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"Wow! So now you can't go back to earth," I remarked.
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"No," she shook her head.
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"But why me? Why risk your lives for me? You could've let them kill
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me and moved on with your lives. I thought you were some kind of sex
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slaves prisoners. That's why I tried to kill the king in the first
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place!"
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"Because you're a baby" Adah quipped.
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"I am not a baby!"
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"Yes you are! Here! Look at this!" She pulled up some footage of a
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hidden camera. It showed me snooping around the palace. It showed
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me approaching Monica. Adah fast-forwarded the video. There was the
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footage of me hiding in the corner. There was the footage of Monica
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holding me. And there I was, cuddling up in her arms.
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"This is insane," I commented.
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